2 AND 4, WEETWOOD LANE, 2 AND 3, BACK BAILEYS PLACE
2 AND 3, BACK BAILEYS PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255740
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, WEETWOOD LANE, 2 AND 3, BACK BAILEYS PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 3, BACK BAILEYS PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255740
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, WEETWOOD LANE, 2 AND 3, BACK BAILEYS PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 3, BACK BAILEYS PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2 AND 4, WEETWOOD LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 3, BACK BAILEYS PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 4, WEETWOOD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 27589 36915
Details
LEEDS
SE2736NE WEETWOOD LANE, Far Headingley
714-1/59/676 (East side)
Nos.2 AND 4
GV II
Includes: Nos.2 AND 3 BACK BAILEY'S PLACE Far Headingley.
Terrace of 4 shops, now 2 shops. Built between 1831 and 1850,
altered C20. Coursed squared gritstone, slate roof. 2 storeys,
4 first-floor windows. Central glazed doors, flanking
plate-glass shop windows, wooden pilasters and brackets to
fascia boards and former blinds. 4-pane sashes to 1st floor. 2
banded stacks, at eaves level left and rear of ridge centre.
Left return, Back Bailey's Place: 3 bays, far left a 2-storey
cottage with stone slate roof, 4-panel door in surround with
tie-stone jambs, modern window frames, large corniced stack
right; central lower roofed bay with board door left and a
single-storey outshut right; the gable end of No.8 with a
4-pane window to each floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
One of the rows built on land sold for 3d. per acre to defray
the cost of the Inclosure Act for Headingley Moor, 1831.
(Thompson, FML, The Rise of Suburbia: Treen, C: The process of
suburban development in North Leeds 1870-1914: 1982-: 164;
Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1847-).
Listing NGR: SE2758936915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465683
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, F M L, The Rise of Suburbia, ()
Treen, C, The Process of Suburban Development in North Leeds 1870-1914, (1982), 164
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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